Nükhet Ruacan (14 December 1951 – 6 May 2007) was a female Turkish singer and educator in musicology.

Life

Nükhet Ruacan was born in

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, Turkey on 14 December 1951. She studied graphic design in the State College of Applied Fine Arts Istanbul ( tr, İstanbul Devlet Tatbiki Güzel Sanatlar Yüksek Okulu). She married twice, and gave birth to a daughter, Roksan. Nükhet Ruacan died at the age of 55 on 6 May 2007 at a hospital in Istanbul, where she was treated on

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. She was laid to rest in

Karacaahmet Cemetery The Karacaahmet Cemetery ( tr, Karacaahmet Mezarlığı) is a 700-year-old historic cemetery, located in Üsküdar, the Asian side of Istanbul. Karacaahmet cemetery is the oldest and largest in Istanbul at , and the largest burial ground in Turkey ...

in Istanbul.

Career

Although educated as a graphic designer, she preferred to sing jazz. In 1974, her singing career started in Switzerland. Between 1974 and 1977, she performed in the orchestras of Emin Fındıkoğlu and Tommy Dodd in Switzerland, and in Norway. In 1977, she returned to Turkey, and continued as a performer in various nightclubsand music festivals. She went to New York in 1979, where she attended the New York Conservatory of Music for singing lessons. During this time, she released a record titled ''Ruacan''.Turkish info page
/ref> After returning home in 1982, she gained fame as a jazz singer. She performed many times in the state-owned television channel

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(TRT), and produced an album. She appeared in concerts in China and the United States as a representative of

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. In 1984, she participated in the national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. Later, she served in Istanbul Bilgi University for ten years as a musicology teacher.Biography page
/ref> After 2005, she also trained people on music in Nazım Hikmet Center of Art.Sol Page
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ruacan, Nukhet 1951 births 2007 deaths Musicians from Istanbul Turkish jazz singers Turkish jazz musicians Academic staff of Istanbul Bilgi University Burials at Karacaahmet Cemetery 20th-century Turkish women singers Deaths from leukemia in Turkey